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Combating the greenhouse effect
Industrial installations such as thermal power plants, cement works and refineries emit large amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere.
Capturing CO2 from these sources, transporting it – sometimes over long distances –, and storing it are major challenges for the future.
Fighting climate change through CO2 capture and storage will depend on:
- reducing the costs, particularly the energy costs, of capture technologies,
- ensuring that CO2 can be stored in a sustainable way and assessing the risks posed by potential leaks,
- developing techniques to track these stocks from the initial injection of the CO2 onwards. Any CO2 injected into an underground storage facility will need to be contained over a very long period.
Research areas
The different departments of IFP are working together to identify solutions to tackle greenhouse gas emissions, for example by:
- improving post-combustion capture methods for CO2 contained in flue gases,
- optimizing tools to model CO2 storage,
- developing materials to ensure storage areas remain airtight over very long periods,
- perfecting tools and processes to track changes in CO2 during injection and storage.
Joint research projects
IFP leads or participate in a number of public-funded projects at the national level (ANR, ADEME) and at the international level (European Commission).
Industrial partners are also contributing to this research by funding a number of consortia.
+ IFP > Annual report
+ Industrial development > IFP's offer on CO2
+ Our commitment to research > Our collaborations > IFP and Europe > European CO2 projects in which IFP participates
+ Specific issue: IFP and CO2
Further information
IFP and Sustainable Development
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Capturing and storing CO2 to combat the greenhouse effect
(PDF - 870 Ko)